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As an amateur EE it is so annoying that they reuse names of already existing ARM chips.

ARM Cortex-M4 or simply M4 is quite popular ARM architecture. I am using M0, M3 and M4 chips from ST on a daily basis.
Corrupt to the bone. They'd burn the whole planet to be kings over the ashes.
Curious content, or HNvertisement?

The top three stories are Apple PR releases... the other two I might understand, but FCP?
So is the iPad mini abandoned due to the profit margins being too small or what? I wish they'd just make it clear so I could upgrade without worrying a mini replacement will come out right after I buy something. And I don't really understand why there are so many different iPads now (Air/Pro/Standard). It just feels like Apple is slowly becoming like Dell... offer a bunch of SKUs and barely differentiated products. I liked when Apple had fewer products but they actually had a more distinct purpose.
Why let your vehicle rust?
Ok, but is it twice as fast during those 10 hours, leading to 20 hours of effective websurfing? ;)
children under 16 should never have access to either a smart phone, or a device connected to the internet, it's that simple..

any parent allowing a child under 16 to have access to a device is frankly a bad parent, and putting their young children at horrible risks..
Actually, no.

Apart that he was a film maker, I don’t know anything about him. If anything, this thread thrown more claims on the person than I have ever read before, as I couldn’t care less about topics that can perfectly fit gossip magazines.

Plus not being a doctor, I’m not even qualified to make a compelling diagnosis.

All that said, clichés don’t come from anywhere, and tyrannic personalities who destroy everybody around them as sure as they get social glorification for practicing some art is a well established one, so I wouldn’t be surprised that it would be the case. However I would rather have Picasso coming to my mind.
A more efficient CPU can't improve that spec because those workloads use almost no CPU time and the display dominates the energy consumption.
the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device

Neutered because you can't side-load apps or use it as a dev machine? That's a pretty limited use-case overall.

I have an M1 iPad Pro and it's great for moderate photo editing (Photomator or Adobe) and basic "office" stuff.
Just because you lack the skills to fix it, doesn't mean it's not repairable. People desolder components all the time to fix phones and ipads and laptops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKNjy3CoZ4
Thank you for saying this. When cold brew first came out, it was promoted as a brewing process that resulted in smoother (I'm guessing lower acidity) tasting coffee. Heating it up seemed natural, and its use in iced coffee seemed simply opportunistic. (In my experience at least).

Then it quickly caught on as a novelty, with nitro et al, and when I tell people I drink cold brew warmed I get looks of confusion or turned up noses.

But brew temp and serving temp are orthogonal.
If avoiding Europe governments is a priority, would it be better to use mail service from China or Russia?
Game studios have always been very brutal in their hire/grind/fire cycle. Not sure they really want to change.
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You have to wonder what it was about though - was it a coup similar to Altman and OpenAI? Was it a "Hey you seem more focused on other projects so you should just focus on those since that's what you want" thing? Was it that Jack didn't get to have his way on every little thing?

It's pretty telling that he is advising people not to use Bluesky though, guess he isn't happy with the direction they are going.
2x efficiency vs a 2 year old chip is more or less in line with expectations (Koomey's law). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law
I'm also interested in the least pythonic spreadsheet, has anyone worked on that?
backlight is now the main bottleneck for consumption heavy uses. I wonder what are the main advancements that are happening there to optimize the wattage.
And neither Slack nor Zulip are suitable for complex discussions.
I hope the creator does another run of the original Sora Pot, I would buy that in a heart beat.
I've been using the iPad Mini for years.

I'd love to see them add something to that form factor.

I do see a lot of iPad Minis out there, but usually, as part of dedicated systems (like PoS, and restaurant systems).

On the other hand, I have heard rumblings that Apple may release an even bigger phone, which I think might be overkill (but what do I know. I see a lot of those monster Samsung beasts, out there).

Not sure that is for me. I still use an iPhone 13 Mini.

I suspect that my next Mac will be a Studio. I guess it will be an M4 Studio.
According to your other comment, then, a company that "lands stable customer-loved products" would be a "hotbed of nepotism" that people shouldn't work for.
My impression was that much of Bluesky’s excitement came from it being the next big thing, from the guy who made Twitter!, which you and I know isn’t accurate, but that’s how a lot of its headlines and blurbs appeared to me.
At my friends coffee shop they make cold brew with an elaborate laboratory glassware setup that drips ice-water through a filter. Looks pretty neat and sciencey. They got 4 of these devices running all the time in the back room. I was telling him all the other shops in town just fake it, he should put one of the devices out front so people can see his cold-brew is for real.
This is actually a break in tradition for Apple - they had been going out of their way to call things specific names like LLMs, generative models, transformers etc. I guess they've decided that the AI term is here to stay.
> it may prevent children from developing essential digital literacy skills

nope.. give them books, paper books, every single generation before the smartphone did just fine with books, in fact 100% of kids before smart phones, were smarter.. because they read ( books )..
Yeah, I bought one of them a few years ago planning to use it for a ton of things.

Turns out I only use it on flights to watch movies because I loathe the os.
The next iPhone pro max will be 6.9 inches

That fits all your wants
Is the CPU/GPU really dominating power consumption that much?
They have a "Pro" product across most of their products. If anything, the "Air" nomenclature in some products whereas others have no name indicating it's the lower priced option is what's confusing.
I mean this sincerely, are you really an Apple customer then? I feel exactly the same as you, and for that reason I don't buy Apple products. They are honest about what they sell, which I appreciate.
>> It's fairly absurd that they're still selling a 256gb "Pro" machine in the first place.

My guess is they want you to use their cloud storage and pay monthly for it.
Are these M-class chips available to be purchased on Digi-Key and Mouser? Do they have data sheets and recommended circuitry? I’d love to play with one just to see how difficult it is to integrate compared to, say, an stm8/32 or something.
There are several reasons I've come to prefer phoenix over rails but a big one is definitely the experience of using livebook with it. The first time I saw someone use that to simultaneously diagnose and document an incident just blew my mind. Now a few years in it's one of the few things in programming that ever really lived up to my expectations lol.
Yes, I meant his practice of coming up with silly nicknames for things he dislikes, not that he used this one specifically.
What's a good way to contact you?

I have a product question regarding one of the comments you've made in 2022.

I added my email to my profile if you could please email me.
Maybe I'm getting old by the thought of how much engineering goes into making chips, only for them to end up on a tablet kids use to watch cartoons and cat videos is mildly depressing.
Why are you trying to mirror and not just draw in native apps? Not claiming you're wrong, just wondering what apps/workflow you're using, since "drawing" is pretty good on the iPad.
> It's a toy after they stop updating it in a few years and you can no longer run new creative software for no good reason.

My Mom who's a teacher is still using a 2017 iPad Air as a daily driver for most usecases (eg. Google Classroom, Netflix, Textbooks).
Since Intel->M1 the performance gains haven't been the headliners they once were, although the uplifts haven't been terrible. It also lets them hide behind the more impressive sounding multiplier which can reference something more specific but not necessarily applicable to broader tasks.
The need to overfly a country, vs just sail round, means that airlines need country's permission to fly into/through a country. Overflight privileges cost money.

In addition protectionism has meant that you generally have to land or take off at an airport run by the flag you carry.

So unlike shipping, a Malaysian airline can't fly from the US to UK.

This means that airlines need to be based at their 'real' base of operations, they can't just register in a tax-shelter.
Because it would be so great you couldn’t help using it? /h

What would be the downside to other’s using it?

I get frustrated that Mac doesn’t respond to look & pinch!
I'd love a dead simple, secure, in-browser way to push through NAT and SSH into a Pi.
> banning kids from devices might stop them from engaging in social
> activities that are increasingly happening online

no, that's the actual problem, the reason kids are at risk, and are getting dumber and more stupid and suffering massive mental health and social issues, is because of devices and online activities.. take their phones away.. simple..
I think this is a cool feature, but I don't really see the kinds of people who need to do multicam setups grabbing a load of iPhones and tripods and doing things that way. Does it also support some other way of capturing with pro cameras (SDI or HDMI live capture for instance)?
i'm ignorant but can you jailbreak and install your own general purpose OS on it?
If I had to venture a guess, maybe WWDC '24 that's coming up.
You're not wrong. It's why I don't use apple hardware anymore for work or play. On Android and Windows I can build and install whatever I like, without having to go through mother-Apple for permission.
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>A Windows workbook or a Chromebook sucks from a UX standpoint

Subjective, but sure, valid. Both of those systems have more flexibility.

>Pricing is comparable to a MS Surface or Chromebook Pro.

Yes, and I wouldn't be buying one of those for light reading or taking notes in Notion, either.
What? I went on Aliexpress and found a 40KHz transducer for $40. You can 3D print the attachment, can't you?
There’s a quickly growing ev conversion industry. Lots of shops that will take your vintage ride and convert it. the amount of wrecked evs showing up in wrecking yards is resulting in a new era of hotrodding. check out www.openinverter.com
sigh

I was really hoping the iPad Mini will get a refresh... at least a bit of a CPU bump to prolong its longevitiy.
4P cores only ???.
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From their specs page, battery life is unchanged. I think they donated the chip power savings to offset the increased consumption of the tandem OLED
~38 TOPS at fp16 is amazing, if the quoted number if fp16 (ANE is fp16 according to this [1] but that honestly seems like a bad choice when people are going smaller and smaller even at the higher level datacenter cards so not sure why apple would use it instead of fp8 natively)

[1]: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/1...
The upcoming iPhones will be 6.9 inch vs 8.3 inch on the iPad mini

That is such a tiny difference in size
To me it just feels like a soft launch.

You probably have people (like myself) trying to keep up with the latest MacBook Air who get fatigued having to get a new laptop every year (I just upgraded to the M3 not too long ago, from the M2, and before that... the M1... is there any reason to? Not really...), so now they are trying to entice people who don't have iPads yet / who are waiting for a reason to do an iPad upgrade.

For $1,300 configured with the keyboard, I have no clue what I'd do with this device. They very deliberately are keeping iPadOS + MacOS separate.
As long as we get the building ‘for free’ (don’t have to consider/pay for the original costs to build it), it can definitely be retrofitted for many purposes somewhat economically.

Maybe a bit like the industrial lot to condo process that happened in NYC and other places awhile ago?

It’ll be weird, but folks will adapt.

I’m not sure why folks wouldn’t just build in the ‘burbs (and work remotely) in most cases though?
If there is demand for house construction, people will build houses as a service. No land ownership, or even no housing ownership does not change this fact.
> With three whistleblowers dead

I thought it is 2…?
Some arguments are that you shouldn’t be able to create appliances, only general purpose machines.
Unlikely, today is an Apple product release day and it’s been widely anticipated in the tech press that this is when they will begin their ramp up on “we do AI as well” (even though they’ve been doing stuff for years just not with the term AI and they are just late to this new generative stuff in particular)

Apple announcement days usually see a handful rise to the top of HN, has been like it for well over a decade now.
Isn't this weird, a new chip consumes 2 times less power, but the battery life is the same?
Short small comments that provoke pages of thoughtful discussion should be ranked higher than dumb punny one-liner quips or distracting detouring near-suspicious detoured astroturfed irrelevant conversations that often derail important topics.

There should be more than one dimensionality to ranking a comment just like slashdot had.

Downvoting a comment to disagree with it is such a ingrained unfortunate consequence that down votes should actually count more than up votes and all ranking of comments should be by "controversial".

Spam is spam, including "le reddit" humor.

A rank of a comment should be at least somewhat indicative of the the substance of the comment in relation to a point being made... Not whether or not an uncontributing lurker thinks a comment is funny or politically agreeable.

There used to be a unspoken rule that you don't downvote without at least mentioning why. We all know why that went away and we can't say why, But we can think of how to prevent it for the next intellectual chamber we would like inhabit to prevent from it echoing so much we can no longer hear the new ideas.

My (personally) most "provoking" of a comment was:

>Whataboutism is whataboutism

The other half is presentation. Collapsible comment trees seem good until I hijack every top reply and all others are minimized or top detached visually to be sequitur.

I fear these near-obvious improvements are features, not bugs.
I think this was my fault. I refactored some code using crypto/rand into a file which was already using math/rand and failed to notice that the imports were wrong and not magically fixed by goimports like they usually are!

So goimports rocks and my code review skills suck!
Sure, but I also remember them comparing M1 chip to 3090 GTX and my MacBook M1 Pro doesn't really run games well.

So I've become really suspicious about any claims about performance done by Apple.
Where I live, rents have gone up a lot in the last two years so even with the higher interest rates owning is still competitive with renting.
And here it is in an OS that can't even max out an M1!

That said, the function keys make me think "and it runs macOS" is coming, and THAT would be extremely compelling.
Yes I'm pretty sure that is what happened. I was consolidating random functions into one file which was already using math/rand so when I moved the function which was using crypto/rand there it picked up the math/rand import.

So not goimports problem, my problem for expecting goimports to magically do the right thing like it usually does!
You can no longer mutter to your coworkers I just need the caffeine as you add the 5th scoop of instant to your Styrofoam cup of hot water.
But that clearly isn't equivalent to "they will not be missed", or "the gaming industry is better without them". Rockstar or Treyarch could disappear and I personally wouldn't care, but I also wouldn't pop into threads about them and pat myself on the back for not being bothered.
You're not sure why young people want to live in large cities?
Yeah, big phones have become the new small tablet.

https://phonesized.com/compare/#2299,156

Take away the bezels on the tablet and there's not a lot of difference.
It depends on level. For a junior, these are great design docs because they educate other juniors about engineering, and educate senior bad-doccers about good doc writing, and show developing skill in the art of doc writing, before the engineer has the additional cognitive burden of writing about something much harder.
I enjoy a good cold brew but it’s been a rare occurrence. It usually has a stale taste I assume is due to oxidation. I can see coffee shops using acoustic cavitation to make fresh batches throughout the day instead of one big overnight batch!
One aspect I've observed is that people have bought into the financialized paradigm so hard that they narrate their personal home as some kind of "investment", instead of the reality that the building is a depreciating capital good that they're depleting. Rather than taking responsibility for renovations as things they're spending money on to make them personally happy and comfortable, they justify new kitchens/baths/etc as objective "investments" that "increase the value of their home". Since the building is still actually a depreciating capital good, and since the value is an illiquid paper figure, land prices have to go up to complete the illusion. And when they don't, homeowners throw a fit because they have already committed an outsized proportion of their wealth/income to that one asset.
Wow, beautiful point! Very LessWrong-esque. Will definitely explore more.
Swift Playgrounds, which runs on the iPad, can already be used to build an app and deploy it to the App Store without a Mac.
> We don't generate OpenPGP keys on the server, we generate them in the client, and then encrypt them with a key derived from your password (which we never send to the server), and store the encrypted key on the server.

I see, I stand corrected then. Thanks for clarifying. The Proton Mail interface contains buttons labeled "generate" so I got the impression it was being generated in the server. Is this password-derived key the "account key" which I see in the Proton Mail settings interface?

Please clarify what key derivation function is being used. The OpenPGP S2K which gpg uses is outdated and probably not secure enough. I know that Proton Mail is involved in the OpenPGP standards body in an effort to modernize it and that the new RFC contains support for the memory hard argon2 algorithm. Is that what's being used? If so then I would believe that it's even more secure than the encryption that gpg applies to the exported key output.

Are there instructions for verifying that all this is happening? I think a lot of folks on HN won't be convinced otherwise.

> We do support "GNU Dummy" keys now (which is what `gpg --export-secret-subkeys` creates).

Wow that is GREAT and the exact information I wanted! I only believed otherwise because of the documented instructions, which contain the command I posted above. I double checked with Proton Mail support as well but everything led to believe that this was not supported when in fact it was.

Please add this fact to your documentation and instruct your support staff about this!!

> I would argue that the private key material of the subkeys (used to encrypt and sign your emails) is actually much more important in this case (but of course we don't have access to that either).

I agree. Those are the keys which sign and encrypt the data after all.

It's just that I'm going to create an OpenPGP identity for things like signing code commits on git, signing packages I publish. I'm putting quite a bit of effort into getting it right. I printed out the master key to paper in paperkey and QR code format. I even contributed code to ZBar to add binary decoding support so that the key backup is easy to restore. I'll also be making an effort to join the decentralized web of trust.

So I was really hoping to be able to use Proton Mail with this identity instead of the key pair that's generated for the account. This way the emails I send can be signed by the same identity that I'll publish on the OpenPGP key servers. Looks like it's going to be possible after all.

Thanks for reaching out here on HN. I've been a really happy Proton Mail customer and now I'm even happier.
As an aside of this discussion: I do not get people who like Outer Worlds. I am a huge fan of New Vegas, I was so pumped for that game, and it was so, so bland. The combat damn near put me to sleep, the writing was atrociously heavy-handed and made me think the authors thought I was a complete fucking idiot (and I agree with them!), and the moment-to-moment gameplay was just thoroughly, thoroughly unsatisfying.

I know it has a loving if smaller community and man, I wanted to love it, but I just could not. I have hope for the sequel and will definitely play it if not day one, close to it, but yeah. Outer Worlds was one of my most disappointing games of all time.
They’ve done a great job getting people to accept the premise that your phone/iPad is somehow not a computer. Like Final Cut for iPad is a rental (aka subscription) while you can actually buy it Mac.
> Yes, and I wouldn't be buying one of those for light reading or taking notes in Notion, either.

I'm using it for work, so I am either getting it reimbursed or provided by my employer (in my case), or if I'm running a solo business/self employed (as plenty of creators are) you can get tax credits and a partial reimbursement as it's being used for work as well.

Like I mentioned before, the target demographic is Creators or Executives, but also (increasingly) schools.

> Both of those systems have more flexibility

Absolutely, but that flexibility is a security vector for most non-technical users.

There's a reason companies spend 7-8 figures on XDRs like CRWD/S1/Cortex, or are looking to Secure Browsers like Surf, Talon, or Arc.
The announcement video also highlighted "120 GB/s unified memory bandwidth". 8 GB/16 GB depending on model.
Any apps that work with MIDI controller on iPad?

Also, can't you just use a USB-C hub for like $10 from Amazon?